On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Stephen Nelson was born in Motherwell, Scotland in 1970, to the King of Belguim and his wife, a member of the Swedish Royal Family. He was educated in a monastery in Bhutan where he quickly learned the simultaneous arts of telepathy and levitation. He gave it all up for poetry however, and now practices visual poetry, minimalism and freeform song at the blog http://afterlights.blogspot.com. He's been published in various magazines, including the Hungarian publication, Kalligram, where one of these pieces first appeared. Stephen says: "Letter compositions, processed, and processed again, digitally, magically -- concrete to visual to concrete, around the magic alphabet, across the magic page." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.